Lake Howell High To Get More Land

The School Board Has Agreed To Buy 6 Acres For Practice Fields. A Plan To Buy More Land Was Rejected At The Meeting.

February 1, 1996|By Mike Berry of The Sentinel Staff

SANFORD — The Seminole County School Board has tentatively agreed to buy more land for Lake Howell High School.

The board agreed to buy 6 acres of land just east of the campus for $470,000 to allow construction of more practice fields. Final arrangements still must be made.

Board members did not want to buy an additional 4.7 acres just south of the school, although some school representatives argued that all the land is needed.

Lake Howell High will undergo reconstruction next year, but the practice fields will not be a part of that project, planner Dianne Kramer said.

The estimated cost of the reconstruction far exceeds earlier estimates. Board members agreed they will have to find an extra $5 million from other construction projects, Kramer said. She said that will mean delaying, but not eliminating, other projects.

The board did not decide where to go for the money. But two projects mentioned as possibilities were the conversion of the old Teague Middle School to a 9th-grade center for Lake Brantley High and the second phase of renovation at Sanford Middle, Kramer said.